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Stewart Home @stewarthome.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Russia only had a handful of Stalin monuments when Putin came to power, but it now has well over 100. At the same time, memorials to victims of Stalinist repression have come under pressure or been removed. theins.press/en/news/294156

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Cherepovets to unveil Russia’s latest monument to Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin

Authorities in the northern Russian city of Cherepovets have begun installing a joint monument to Soviet dictator Josef Stalin and Ivan Bardin, a metallurgist…

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andy-uu.bsky.social @andy-uu.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Stalin was as Russian as Yasser Arafat was Palestinian, or Adolf H was German. Stalin was born in Gori, Georgia (at the time, the Tiflis Governorate of the Russian Empire). I heard that majority of Georgians don't feel proud about him. About 12 (twelve) statues of Stalin were tracked there so far.

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Stewart Home @stewarthome.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Interesting but for me the issue is his politics & the way he oversaw after Lenin the transition from the formal to the real domination of capital in Russia. The Bolsheviks carried out a revolution but it was a capitalist & not a communist revolution. See Bordiga on the agricultural question.

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